Making The Most Of Your Time

Making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

 

Ephesians 5:16

 

 

 

Many people never finish what they begin—unfinished paintings, ministries that never come to fruition, dreams that always remain dreams, and there are relationships that never become all they could be—but it doesn't have to be that way.

 

And the answer can be found in the phrase "making the most of your time" (See Ephesians 5:16a). If we are ever to turn our dreams into realities and our hopes into facts, it will be only when we have made the most of our time.

 

Paul knew firsthand the importance of redeeming his time and we see this in Acts 20:24, "I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus." In other words, God has given us a time boundary, and within that time He has defined a course.

 

Paul is saying, "I want to finish the specific course and specific ministry in the specific time given to me." At the end of his life Paul could say, "I have finished the course" (See 2 Timothy 4:7)—he completed the race because he made the most of his time.

 

How about you, are you in fact making the most of the time that God has given you?